Posted on 09/29/2022 9:03:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Radical Marxist, E. Jean Carroll, who rose to national fame as a fevered Never Trumper seeking revenge with lawfare over very curious claims of being raped in a public dressing room at a large Department store in New York City, has suffered a setback to her plans to ‘scalp’ Donald J. Trump.
A federal appeals court in Manhattan handed Trump a procedural victory Tuesday in a defamation lawsuit after famed columnist E. Jean Carroll claimed that Trump had raped her in the 1990s.
“In a two-to-one decision on Sept. 27, the panel on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a lower court erred when it ruled that Carroll could sue Trump for defamatory statements during his presidency, given that a federal law, known as the Westfall Act, shields government employees from liability in work-related incidents.
Carroll, 78, sued Trump in 2019, claiming the Republican sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990s in a dressing room at a Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan. Because the alleged attack happened decades ago, Carroll was originally barred from suing over the sexual battery, pushing her to sue for defamation over allegedly disparaging comments Trump made about the rape allegation.”
Trump denied her allegation at the time and accused her of using false claims as a way to promote her book. “I’ll say it with great respect: Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, it never happened,” Trump told The Hill in an interview at the White House in June 2019.
The D.C. Court of Appeals is now asked to weigh in on whether Trump was acting within the scope of his presidential duties when he denied raping Carroll and dismissed her during the interview. If Trump was, he would be entitled to immunity from the lawsuit, according to the ruling by the 2nd Circuit judges. And while the U.S. government can be sued over some wrongdoing by its employees, it is immune from defamation lawsuits, which would mean Carroll’s suit would fail.
In a majority opinion written by Circuit Judge Guido Calabresi on Tuesday, two members of the 2nd Circuit’s three-judge panel declined to further address the defamation action while the matter was “of extreme public importance.”
“We do not pass judgment or express any view as to whether Trump’s public statements were indeed defamatory or whether the sexual assault allegations had, in fact, occurred,” the judges said.
Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba, meanwhile, welcomed the decision, saying it “will protect the ability of all future presidents to effectively govern without hindrance.”
“We are confident that the D.C. Court of Appeals will find that our client was acting within the scope of his employment when properly repudiating Ms. Carroll’s allegations,” she said in a statement.
Former Attorney General William Barr and current Attorney General Merrick Garland defended the Department of Justice’s decision to back Trump as a defendant in the ongoing defamation case.
Dissent
“In an opinion written by Judge Denny Chin, the third judge who dissented, he said that the law protecting federal employees from liability does not apply to Trump. He said it was only to protect low-level, rank-and-file government employees rather than the president,” Li reported, adding:
And he said at least some of the former president’s statements were not part of his official duties.
“Trump was not acting in the scope of his employment when he made comments about Carroll and her accusations because he was not serving any purpose of the federal government,” wrote the judge, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama.
“In the context of an accusation of rape, the comment ‘she’s not my type’ surely is not something one would expect the President of the United States to say in the course of his duties. Carroll’s allegations plausibly paint a picture of a man pursuing a personal vendetta against an accuser, not the United States’ ‘chief constitutional officer’ engaging in ‘supervisory and policy responsibilities of utmost discretion and sensitivity,’” Chin added.
Endorsing Chin’s dissenting opinion, Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan also said she was “confident” that the D.C. appeals court would agree that Trump’s statements were unrelated to his job.
However, chances remain that the legal fight over whether Trump or the U.S. government should be the defendant in the case could become moot. Carroll’s lawyer alerted a Manhattan federal court judge in August that she plans to file a new lawsuit against Trump when New York’s Adult Survivor’s Act takes effect on Nov. 24. The new law offers a one-year “window” during which time adult survivors of sexual attacks are able to bring civil claims when they otherwise would be barred by time requirements.
This is the woman who was interviewed by Anderson Cooper, and started talking about her rape fantasies. And then Anderson cut to a commercial break really quick.
Yes, I think one can impugn the credibility of the accusations from this disturbed women.
So she was close to 50 years old when the alleged rape happened? That doesn’t sound plausible at all to me.
I remember she was on the E channel like twenty years ago. She was kinda cute.
Clarifying the Presidential type is clearly one of his duties. Who else would do it.
So it’s He Said, She Said, and she’s trying to sue him for even defending himself? Got it.
“So it’s He Said, She Said, and she’s trying to sue him for even defending himself?”
That sums it up.
“You raped me!”
“No I didn’t. It never happened.”
“He defamed me by denying it!”
The Court should have tossed this out and sanctioned her attorney for filing this bogus suit.
L
Wonder who is paying her attorneys
She is bat shit crazy.
Deep State, one way or another.
As in the Bill Cosby case, after this amount of time, I don’t give a crap if he raped you or not. You missed your chance.
Maybe Trump did. Most likely he did not (maybe a mutual quickie in the dressing room at best). But after almost 30 years, it doesn’t matter and can’t be proved. If you were raped and didn’t report it immediately, you have to suck it up and move on.
She has a dress too that she has kept all these years and wants it tested for his DNA. Boy, just imagine someone getting Trump’s DNA NOW illegally and planting it on the dress.
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